Voice of Authority: Free Indirect Discourse in Chaucer's General Prologue.

Author / Editor
Fulton, Helen.

Title
Voice of Authority: Free Indirect Discourse in Chaucer's General Prologue.

Published
Louise D’Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 37-55.

Description
Investigates free indirect discourse in GP, focusing on Chaucer's personae, the variety of his narrative positions, and their “focalisations” internal and external to the diegesis of the poem. Comments on focalization in the descriptions of the Wife of Bath and the Physician, and on free indirect discourse as a “sub-type” of focalization in those of the Monk and the Parson.

Alternative Title
Medieval Literary Voices

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Style and Versification